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March 17, 2017

The Sahara Desert we know, with its rolling sand dunes and hot temperatures, used to be a verdant grassland with lakes. Scientists have traditionally attributed the dramatic change to a wobble in Earth’s orbital axis, but now archaeologist David K. Wright of Seoul National University is suggesting actually, humans may have been to blame.